Tag: First World War
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Kirkby Tribunal in World War One
Encountering Tribunals A Tribunal system operated during the first world war. I became interested in this while researching my grandfather’s diaries. In particular, I was interested in family members’ personal experiences of the war, see Chapter 9. A number of them appeared before Tribunals. Tribunals heard applications for exemption from conscription. Broadly, they could issue…
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Saturday 4 August 1973
59 years since the outbreak of the first world war. Weather today was very warm.